1920 X 1080 H.264 video @4100k video bitrate (if you need it we have an 11GB vers here too)
448k Dolby AC3 english main audio
alternate audio track in Italian is an 80K from an HDTV source file and is certainly quite usable I say,
until a bluray disc version or other source can be found.
subs included for Danish English Farsi Finnish German Greek Romanian and Swedish
There aren't enough movies of the best Leading men, our best male genre offerings from Hollywood
cast with nice enough mates, such as actress Michelle Pfeiffer here. Neither Al Pacino nor Robert De Niro
have been done any justice at all in this regard, by a mindset which mainly seethes with envy of their greatness
in my own view of matters on the planet in this regard - and this includes Hollywood all along I submit with care.
The only comment I seem to have to make once again about a movie plot such as this one is a scene in particular where Al Pacino in all the brilliance there is to be found on the planet offers himself with all the love he can offer to Michael Pfeiffer's character while imploring her not
to pass up a chance that may not come again in life for them. Incredulously, a gay man from across the hall walks in on the conversation and escorts Al Pacino out of the room (would you believe)
in the middle of Al Pacino's great moment of sanity for both him and Michelle Pfeiffer, yet this interfering fella who comes in with the idea that he is "protecting" Michelle Pfeiifer from being "upset" is able to be scripted this way, in an obvious insult to the human spirit which is present in the room, in gross miscalculation
of the outcome I say ultimately once the scene has been absorbed and fully digested. Time to end
this nonsensical re-programming of human consciousness by a mindset set against a better spirit
prevailing in this scene and on the planet i submit with care.
Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman) directs the screen adaptation of Terence McNally's play Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune, the story of a short-order cook (Al Pacino) who drives a waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer) crazy with his adamant courtship and mixed messages. The film is okay and not much more than that, the major stumbling block being Marshall's failure to scrub away enough star veneer on Pacino and Pfeiffer to accept them as minimum-wage drones with nowhere to go but toward each other. Fortunately, Marshall's feel for the texture offered by supporting players--Hector Elizondo as a café owner, Nathan Lane as Pfeiffer's inevitably gay neighbour-buddy, Kate Nelligan as another lonely waitress--keeps things interesting enough.